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Letters Patent No. 88,449, dated March 30, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-COVERS m The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the Same.

To all 4whom it amy concern Be it known that I, JOHN C. GLIME, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Umbrella-Cover; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part hereof', and to the several letters marked thereon,

in which drawings- Figure l represents a longitudinal section of an urnbrella, with my cover applied thereto.

Figure 2, a similar section of the upper portion of' the same, enlarged.

Figure 3, a similar section of the lower portion of the umbrella-stick, or stan, and of certain devices (enlax-ged) used in connection with the cover. l

The body of nity umbrella-cover is composed -of a tube, or bag, of any woven or felted fabric or leather, gum cloth or other tlexible material, provided at one (the upper) end with properly-formed devices for securing that end, and used in connection with certain other devices placed on the umbrella-stick, as hereinafter described, the whole forming a cover, which completelyenvelops the folding-parts of the umbrella, .and makes thelattera more convenient object in the hands of travellers.

In the drawingsa represents the umbrella-stick, or stati'.

b, the ribs.

c, the cloth fastened on the ribs.

(l, the body of the cover, which is provided at its upper end with the devices e and f, and connects at its 'lower end, when in use, with the devices gand h, which work on the stick, and are not removed with the cover.

i is a cup-like device, which screws up and down on the device g, and is intended to embrace the ends of the ribs b when theumbrella is closed.`

The device h also screws up and down on the device g, and the lower end of the cover being closed by the drawing-strings j, below the angelc, on the device g, the device t is screwed up against said an'ge, and the cover thus secured. The stick a is shown to be in two parts, each screwed into the device g. The upper part of the stick may, however, be without the screw-thread, and may be fastened to thedevice y with cement, or by having a rivet passed through both; and the mode o t' attaching the lower part, a', of the stick to the device g, may

be similarly varied.

The upper end of the body ofthe coverd is permaf nently fastened between the devices c and j; by screwing down the. device f until theend of the body of the cover is compressed between-the lower end of said device fand flange on device e, as shown inthe drawings. The devices e and f go with the cover when it is removed.

The several devices may be made of metal, bone, ivory, vulcanite, or such other substantial material as may he desired, and they may b e corrugated or otherwise exterior-ly ornamented.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patentflhe body d, of flexible material, and the devices e and j, combined and arranged with the flanged device g, and the devices hand substantially as and for th purpose set forth.

' JOHN C. CLIME.

Witnesses:

GEORGE E. BUCKLEY, WLLLLLM QULN 

